Serve with a positive attitude, as to the Lord and not to men—
Whatever you do, work at it from the soul, as for the Lord and not for people.
Therefore, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
But his servants approached him and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he told you only to ‘Wash and be clean’?”
Now you yourselves know that I’ve served your father with all my strength.
But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching under which you were placed;